Verbal Deception From Late Childhood to Middle Adolescence and Its Relation to Executive Functioning Skills

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1108-1116

  Evans, Angela D ^a   Lee, Kang ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Deception; Executive functioning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79960461077     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023425     Document Type: Article

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